Final Jeopardy: World Theater (3-12-24)
The Final Jeopardy question (3/12/2024) in the category “World Theater” was:
This 1867 play has a reindeer hunt & a king dwelling in snowy mountains but its title character also spends time in Morocco & Egypt
Today’s on Jeopardy! we have these 3 finalists in the Tournament of Champions’s first final game: Yogesh Raut, a social and personality psychologist from Vancouver, WA; Troy Meyer, a music executive from Tampa, FL; and Ben Chan, a philosophy professor from Green Bay, WI.
This year, they are not adding the scores from 2 games to determine the winner. This year, whoever wins 3 games first will be the champ of the 2024 Tournament of Champions.
Round 1 Categories: From the Newspapers – Investing & Business Terms – One-Word Beatles Song Titles – Soup’s On – Idioms & Expressions – Literary Title Adjectives
Troy found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “From the Newspapers” under the $1,000 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $1,600, $1,000 more than Ben in second place. Troy bet $1,600 and he was RIGHT.
In 1921: “Italian Radicals Make Issue of” this pair’s case show
Ben finished in the lead with $6,000. Troy was in second place with $5,800. Yogesh was last with $3,600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Plain Geography – Prose & Congress – Unmanned Space Exploration – The Knightly News – Who’s the Biopic Subject? – Starts with “P”
Troy found the first Daily Double in “Prose & Congress” under the $1,600 clue on the 10th pick of the round. He was in last place with $9,000, $600 less than Yogesh’s lead. Troy made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
In 2011 this senator published his “The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed & the Decline of Our Middle Class” show
Troy found the last Daily Double in “Starts with ‘P’” under the $2,000 clue on the 19th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $24,800, $13,200 more than Yogesh in second place after a scoring change. (see below) Troy bet $6,000 and gave the word for the falcon instead of the journey so that was WRONG.
Part of this word for a long, rambling journey nearly spells out a type of falcon show
Troy finished in the lead with $22,000. Yogesh was in second place with $15,600 and Ben was last with $10,000. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “PEER GYNT”?
Peer Gynt is a 5-act play written in verse by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906). It is the story of the title character, a Norwegian oaf who tells tall tales and, after being banished from his village, embarks on a series of adventures that involve trolls and various other weirdos in foreign lands. Written in 1867, Ibsen asked composer Edvard Grieg if he would compose music for a production of the play. “The music was completed in the autumn of 1875, and the play’s lavishly staged premiere took place on February 24, 1876 in the Mollergaden Theatre, Christiania (now Oslo), with the orchestra conducted by Grieg himself.” (Classic FM)
Ibsen died in 1906 before talkies and TV, and Edvard Grieg died the following year. They never knew how many derivative works “Peer Gynt” would inspire, including cartoons for kiddies. Mel-O-Tunes did a trio of cartoons based on Peer’s adventures. In addition to “Hall of the Mountain King” above, there’s Peer Gynt’s Adventures on the Stormy Sea and Adventures in Arabia.
Ben got it right. He bet $5,601 and finished with $15,601.
Yogesh also got it right. He stood pat on $15,600.
Troy didn’t “do it beautifully” by going with Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler”. It cost him $9,201 and left him with $12,799. So Ben Chan racks up the first win. Somehow that result isn’t a big of a surprise in this Tournament of Upsets.
Reversal: ($1200) This “colorful” poem dates to the 14th century & includes the main character being tempted by a lord’s wife – Ken didn’t hear Yogesh add “Sir” to “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” and gave it the thumbs down. Troy buzzed in with the full title. The judges ruled that Yogesh added “Sir” in time, so he got back $2400.
A triple stumper from each round:
IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS ($600) 2021 called & wants this phrase back that means evaluating someone’s mood or energy
($800) This expression meaning you have to suffer to advance was used in the 17th century, in plural form, by Robert Herrick
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Broadway Musicals”
Characters Mark, Roger & Maureen in this musical were inspired by Marcello, Rodolfo & Musetta in another work show
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Go Ben! Go Troy!
I can’t put my finger on in it, but there is just something so unlikeable about Yogesh. Perhaps I’m totally wrong, but that’s the vibe I get.
Troy tends to have a slow Jeopardy round, but then comes out blazing in double J. Unfortunately that falcon DD tripped him up this time a bit.
Troy reminds me of Matt Jackson with the slow Jeopardy! round. He wants to give his opponents a chance before he kicks butt. Even with that DD miss, he still had a decent lead.
Alas, his FJ response showed all he knew about Ibsen plays were titles.
I didn’t get FJ, mostly because I don’t know that work – at all! I only knew of an orchestral suite!
I didn’t really dig Ben and his overactive, well, acting. Hope he tones it down.
Three strong players traded the lead. Yogesh had a very slow start but rallied. Troy let me down; I figured if I knew that last DD, then he’d nail it too. It cost him a runaway win. I thought of Ibsen but didn’t know which play.
I like the best of 7 format. Never was much of a fan of the 2-day finals, especially when one player dominates day one and is very hard to catch the next game.
Hedda Gabler is about an unhappy married woman. “Do it beautifully” is a line from Hedda.
We had yet to hear from Yogesh except he selected the first clue in the Jeopardy! Round. He didn’t ring in until the 18th clue.
Yogesh’s 0 bet was a bad strategy because it wasn’t enough to cover Ben’s doubled score and that cost Yogesh his first win but he has a chance to recover that tomorrow.
I don’t think he needs to bet to cover a Ben double-up because that probably loses him in case a triple stumper, which is much more likely than a miss-get-get. But something like a $2800 would have been better.